#because hey

[iloveacronix]

Would you all throw sticks at me if I said that I like the idea of Acronix 'willingly' letting go of Krux while they were in the vortex?? Because he thought that he would've been able to reach the time blades?? He was so so confident that he could've reached their powers, they were so close!! But once he returns and sees that his brother is 40 years older than him, he feels an insane amount of guilt?? Starts regretting that one "small mistake" he did willingly after seeing the consequences?? If he had just held Krux's hand, would they have met the same fate together, or would things have been different??

[eddywoww]

I love dom Eddie as a general concept

[jstodd]

i think when we talk about "female coded" it is a nicer way of saying "nerfed" and before anyone comes for me for the wording i need everyone to remember a majority of dc writers are white men. to believe they KNOW they're writing him in a "girlish" manner is something im incapable of doing, but what i can believe is that they're finding ways to make him seem less useful, too emotionally distraught, and isolate him from people who can sympathize with him because otherwise everyone they write to be idolized looks so much worse.

these are all things they will do to female characters, consciously or unconsciously, and jason happens to fall into this category. what sealed the deal for me was gotham war. bruce quite literally decided that instead of sitting down and getting to the root of the problem, the solution was to just make it so the problem could never be articulated. he chose taking jason's autonomy away, rather than finding a middle ground.

if implanting a chip in a deeply traumatized young 20 something so all he can experience is crippling fear isnt a comic book equivalent to a man forcing a lobotomy on a woman so she's no longer "hysterical" isn't in the same ballpark of deranged idk what is.

[twistedtummies2]

Hello, TT2. I am so sorry you are/were going through friendship loss. My word of advice is that if they were willing to change, then those friends are worth keeping. If not, then you are better off without them. Bad friends do not recognize their bad habits, but good friends do. So what will you and they choose? P.S., I love Reno! He is my favorite of your characters!

I'm genuinely heartened to find people sending me support even after a couple of months, so thank you kindly.

I will not go into details on recent developments, but I will say this: suffice to say, the two people in question and I are currently void of all contact, and we remain separated.

In the case of one, while I acknowledge my own mistakes I made throughout the course of our friendship, I do not feel the final impetus that led to them so abruptly and completely dropping me was in any way worth such a response. So while I can apologize for the mistakes I made - which I had already done by the time all this happened, and which I was making sure I did not repeat - I do not feel this specific instance is something I need to apologize for.

In the case of the other...the more I look back on our relationship, and the myriad of issues that went on throughout it, the more I realize how...problematic that relationship was. A lot of the mistakes I made with one friend were at least partially due to issues with the other, and while there were a lot of good times, there were also some of the absolute worst times of my entire life experienced, as well. I cannot lie and say I do not miss them, but I do not miss the stress, unneeded guilt, anxiety, and the general sensation of feeling trapped and like I might be walking on broken glass I had a lot of the time.

My feelings beyond that point remain generally the same: I still care about both of them, despite everything that happened between us, and despite how utterly ridiculous and out of the blue their betrayals were. If ever either of them choose to contact me privately and attempt to make up, I cannot guarantee I will grant forgiveness, but I will be willing to listen. However, I am not going to attempt to contact either of them myself: when one person has seemingly made it abundantly clear they want nothing more to do with you, and the other has betrayed you in a way no other human being in your entire life has, all for the pettiest and most ill-thought-out reasons...yeah. Not much reason for me to go crawling to them, is there? :P

Also, on a lighter note, Reno is glad to know he has a fan. ;)

[dragonling348]

I'm thinking about that first few episodes of the PJO show, compared to the general opinion of the show now. I'm thinking about the ways we saw Percy trip and fall in front of Annabeth, how Percy got distracted instantly and pet a gecko in the middle of a fight, how he almost shot another camper with a bow and arrow after telling everyone it was probably a bad idea to let him hold a bow and arrow. I'm thinking about how this kid fails so often, and we really got to see it for a moment. We *had* that for a few episodes. This total looser who's human, who messes up but still somehow saves the world. We get moments like the consensus song--it's not like the show is devoid of humor. But as the show goes on, you can sense a change. I won't say my critiques on the newer episodes because everyone knows exactly what direction the show went, the pieces of humanity that it's missing. But I will point out how everyone cheered when the 12 year old ran a taxi straight into a wall. Because that's what they remember. They laughed when they were kids reading a chapter list with things like "We take a zebra to Vegas"

I don't know what the point of this post is, it doesn't say anything that the entire fandom hasn't been saying. I'm not even trying to reach a decision on whether or not I like these changes. But Rick Riordan *had* that feeling in the show. It's just that as it goes on, we get less and less.

[gobs-archive]

Having the temptation to work on a fanfic based on the would be DLC for DA2, the Exhalted March.

Time to inflict more trauma onto my boy

[zukoscomet]

Zuko and Katara's first date? Zuko brought a bouquet of flowers, but was so nervous that he set it on fire. He began to beat him against the wall, trying to put him out. He ends up stumbling because he hears Katara laughing at the door.

Anon, you are a genius, I love this idea. Also, I love the implication that Zuko is so nervous for the date that he doesn't think to put out the fire with his bending.

I raise you: even though she knows Zuko must hear her giggling, Katara waits until he knocks the door. When she opens it, Zuko could not be more flustered if he tried - red in the face and sweating something chronic, a scattering of embers and ashes at his feet, and a bouquet of nothing but singed stems in his hand. For a few seconds, Zuko can't say anything because Katara is dressed up and wow, she's pretty, but eventually he manages a "Hi." and "I brought you flowers but I-, I kinda... set fire to them."

Zuko thinks his chance with her is about as toast as the flowers. But Katara is just smiling and then, from behind her back, she suavely pulls out her own bouquet - one she'd been planning to give to him.

"Lucky I brought enough to share then, huh?"

And you can bet Katara and Zuko both keep a pressed flower from that bouquet for years after.